Ramsgreave and Wilpshire is a railway station on the
Ribble Valley Line that serves the villages/suburbs of
Ramsgreave
Ramsgreave is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. The parish is located on the northern edge of Blackburn although it is just outside the Blackburn with Darwen unitary district, and although the south and east of ...
and
Wilpshire, just north of
Blackburn in
Lancashire, England. The station is north of
Blackburn railway station.
The present station was built south of the original Wilpshire station which served the
Ribble Valley Line until its closure just before the
Beeching Axe
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the ...
in 1962. When the line was re opened in 1994 a new site had to be found, due to the construction of houses which blocked access to the old station. The platforms which served as the old Wilpshire Station (also known as "Wilpshire for Ribchester") can still be seen.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed, but has a ticket machine on the south platform, as of 2020. There are waiting shelters and customer help points on each platform; automatic announcements also provide real-time train running information. The ramps to both platforms have steps, so no step-free access is available.
Services
The station is operated by
Northern Trains, and is served by a daily hourly service northbound to
Clitheroe and southbound to
Blackburn and
Manchester Victoria, with extra trains during peak hours.
On Sundays in the summer, one or two trains operate from
Preston
Preston is a place name, surname and given name that may refer to:
Places
England
*Preston, Lancashire, an urban settlement
**The City of Preston, Lancashire, a borough and non-metropolitan district which contains the settlement
**County Boro ...
or
Blackpool North along the Ribble Valley Line via Clitheroe to
Hellifield and onwards towards
Carlisle
Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria, Eden, River C ...
. These also run in winter, but terminate at Hellifield, where connections for stations to Carlisle can be made.
References
External links
Railway stations in Ribble Valley
DfT Category F2 stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1994
Northern franchise railway stations
1994 establishments in England
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